Trevor francis was sold by Birmingham city to norwich for a fee of £1,000,000. He was the first £1,000,000 player
It was to Nottingham Forest (managed by Brian Clough), not Norwich and the official fee was actually £999,999 because Clough did not want the £1 million tag to get to Trevors head but after taxes the total amount came to just over £1.1 million.
Pat Fitzgerald is the youngest person to ever become a head coach in NCAA Division 1-A history. He was just 31 when he became the head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats football team in 2006.
Haiti became the first nation in history of the world to be founded by formerly enslaved persons. About 95 percent of Haiti's 7.5 million people are of Africen ancestry.
On April 11, 1990. two people won $35 million in the NY Lotto.
Men's football was a demonstration sport at the 1896 Games in Athens and became a medal sport at the 1900 Games in Paris. Great Britain won the first gold medal. Women's football became a medal sport at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. The United States won the first gold medal in women's football.
Virginia was one of the original 13 colonies. It became a state when the Articles of Confederation were approved.
The history of sports in Sierra Leone begins with football from Portugal. Settlers from this area brought their love of football which then became a national sport.
Alan shearer ,blackburn to Newcastle utd
Soccer became Rugby that became American Football.
College never became football. People in college play football.
At the beginning of the 2010-11 season, American reinsurance company Aon became the club's principal sponsor in a four-year deal reputed to be worth approximately £80 million, making it the most lucrative shirt sponsorship deal in football history
Al Davis was 24 when he became an assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts. Before joining the new AFL's Los Angeles Chargers in 1960, he was an assistant at the Citadel and then USC. He was hired by the Raiders three years later and became the youngest general manager-head coach in pro football history.
The 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game was a college football game played on October 7, 1916, between the Georgia Tech Engineers and the Cumberland College Bulldogs. The game became the most lopsided in the history of college football, as Georgia Tech was victorious 222-0.
Football started proffesionally in 1920, but it wasn't until 1967 when football became like it was now.
played football
he is a football player who became a soldier.
The origins of the game played with sticks and a ball which became hockey are inevitably hidden in the mists of history. No single person 'invented' the game, just as no single person 'invented' football.
they became our history